Into the woods...with piers, waffle and slab

Building works commenced with the No Name Building company demolition 1 week of June.

We then waited and waited and waited. Two months went by before there was any action. Try explaining that to a three year old little boy. All he wants to see is Bob the Builder come to do his thing!!!

Finally some movement in the woods. Piering was done on the 4 August, Waffle on the 8 August and finally the slab on the 9 August. Three months since DA approval and at last some serious action in the woods............

Here are some pics

Piering

Waffles dumped behind fence

 Waffles laid

Cement covers waffle pod

The digger came and covered plumbing/ electricals

IN the woods....with a 25% premium to mange demolition ?????!!!

So our two/ three bedroom 1940's house was demolished by Bassetts Demolition Company. It only took 4 days for the house to be demolished and most of those 4 days had light to medium rain. Our neighbours are keeping a keen eye on the house build and were super impressed by Bassets.

Our No-name building company organised the demolition and we paid them a 25% premium to manage this for us. Dumb idea in hindsight. It is so easy to organise yourself. The demo company needs to complete a work plan and a few other pieces of documentation then it's easy peasy to complete a DA application right?

Before the house was demolised we had a pre-demolition sale as the house had only been renovated two years prior. We ended up raising about $2.5k from the sale of a poly kitchen, stained glass windows/ door, Built ins, European appliances etc. Not a bad little bonus.

 
To advertise the pre-demolition sale I produced a blog with heaps of photos and placed an advertisement on gumtree.com.au directing traffic from there to the blog. It was a huge success and I had heaps of enquiries and sold what I wanted t sell.



Anyway, here is a video of part of the demolition

Click here for demolition video

Here are some pics